Seeing this scene, the civil officials were shocked, and the generals' faces suddenly became solemn. Only they realized that there was no good way to deal with such lancers, especially when infantry encounter such lancers, it was a nightmare that was unsolvable.

With the maneuver power of a cavalry, the destructive power and long-range shooting ability of a musketeer, this type of army has surpassed this era.

The concentrated use of gunpowder weapons, especially artillery, will fundamentally change the mode of war. Artillery can be far beyond the enemy's range, and even after the enemy's charge range, and the three-row stacking of musketeers can attack the enemy who pounce on the earth.

As for the lancers, they are definitely the best troop to harass the enemy's back and attack the enemy's air force. Moreover, if it is a large-scale, not only can guerrilla tactics be used, but in the face of crisis, you can still abandon your gun and use a knife to launch a group charge that is commonly used by cavalry at the enemy.

After finally ending, our group ran to the shelling range to appreciate the results. Not to mention leather armor, even the composite armor of the chain and the heavy plate armor left shocking hideous cracks. Some seriously damaged armor turned into a pile of scrap iron, and there was almost no shape it should have.

The entire target site is located, except for areas not affected by shells, and is mostly broken into various shapes.

Everyone was so excited that they were inhaling vigorously as if they were toothache. "Be good, the power of heavenly thunder is hard to reach." A civil servant said this in a rude manner, but no one laughed at him for being sour, because everyone thought he was right, and heavenly thunder probably wouldn't be able to achieve such an effect.

The situation at the other two shooting ranges is much better, at least not as terrifying as artillery guns, but these flintlock rifles have left dark bullet holes on the armor on the straw target. There are many depressions and cracked bullet holes on the heavy plate armor.

This made everyone gasp. You must know that heavy plate armor is definitely the most powerful defensive equipment of this era. It is understandable that it cannot withstand the terrifying heavy gunpowder weapon such as artillery, but it cannot withstand the attack of the flintlock rifle held by a single person. How can it not be alarming?

"The distance between 100 meters and 130 meters can be penetrated, but after 130 meters, it cannot be penetrated." Qu Tuquan stood beside him and stood Debiao explained, but the excitement and glamour on his face could be seen to be very proud of his subordinates.

"But artillery can ravage all the enemies under artillery fire three miles away. Such a war is really impossible to fight." Luo Shixin shook his head repeatedly, sighing, as if he felt that a general like them who likes to play with muscles and plays killing generals and grabs flags, there is no way to imagine in front of such weapons.

"Oh my God, if it were my Chinese army, no, half of the army used such gunpowder weapons, no one in the world would be our opponent." Han Shiye rubbed his stiff face and expressed such emotion.

Here, only half of the troops of the Imperial Guards' Firearms regiment were performed. The Imperial Guards' Firearms Battalion had six battalions, one artillery battalion, one lancer battalion, and three breastplate rifle battalion. There was also a baggage battalion.

"You guys, what do you think of this firearm?" I looked at the crappy targets and armor, glanced at these deeply touched officials in the court and asked.

"The firearm is sharp and not accessible to humans." Kong Yingda shook his head and said he was heavy.

"A great evil thing must not fall into the hands of those with dissatisfaction." Du Ruhui frowned and expressed his words, and his words were immediately approved by the vast majority of people present.

"Du Qing's words are very good, so I have always been very careful. The headquarters of the Firearms Research Institute is controlled by the Special Operations Department of the Imperial Guards." I nodded and explained

"Your Majesty, when will these equipment be able to equip the army?" Luo Shixin looked at the group of guards who had already gathered and lined up. The greed and possession in his eyes made his face distorted and deformed.

"At the end of this year, artillery may be equipped with such an artillery battalion." I looked at the Imperial Guards' Firearms regiment and said proudly. "As for this kind of flintlock gun that fires cone warheads, workers are currently being trained. It is expected that it will take two months before they can join the trial production... If the work is fully started, about 1,700 cannons can be produced every month."

"That's just?" Han Shiye scratched his fluffy chin and said dissatisfied. This made me glar at this guy speechlessly. "That's just like that? Do you know, just a punching technology, I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been spent to get the water machine and the chamber press? Each musket has more than a hundred processes, and each process requires at least ten to fifteen people to operate..."

I was angry, glared at me and spitted at this guy. I heard a lot of important officials in the court smashed my tongue.

"In other words, if you want to produce 1,700 such firearms every month, it takes more than 2,000 factory personnel enough?" Seeing me nodding, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but grin. "More than 100 processes are so complicated?"

"This is naturally. In order to ensure the stability and durability of firearms, it has taken more than five years since the beginning of the development of the firearms. The barrel alone has consumed more than five thousand steel pipes from the beginning of the development to the determination of the model. Of course, if these workers become skilled workers in the future, the monthly output can be doubled." I took a deep breath and sighed. Money is all made of money.

From the beginning of the development of muskets to the present, the total cost has exceeded 4.8 million knots. This is definitely the largest investment since my son traveled through time. It is also the longest investment.

Even my mother, who doesn't care about what investment I make, has a lot of complaints. She spent millions of yuan to throw it in, and it was dozens or million yuan a year. I am afraid that only this young master, a time traveler who is familiar with history and understands the progress of gunpowder weapons to the times and the important role in maintaining agricultural civilization, dares to do so.

It is precisely because of the large investment that these excellent gunpowder weapons that have exceeded this era for nearly a thousand years are definitely top weapons even in the 19th century.

The power of artillery in supporting combat and long-range strikes is obvious to all. In other words, although the flintlock rifle is difficult to resist, the flintlock rifle is a single weapon, and its lethality and range of killing are far inferior to that of artillery. Therefore, it gives people the feeling that it is not too strong. After all, crossbows can also achieve this effect.

But artillery, a sense of fear that can be seen from the sky by artillery shells, is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear.

If guns and cannons are really built on a large scale in the future, some of the unimportant parts can be outsourced, such as butt stocks, flintlock devices, or hydraulic retraction devices.

In this way, the weapon output of this factory with 2,500 people can be increased by another 30%, and even artillery cannons can be increased to ten per month, but the problem is that brass is still lacking, so I am looking forward to the construction of the railway as soon as possible. At that time, as long as the brass from Luzon arrives at Jiaozhi, one day, you can arrive at the ordnance factory in southern Chang'an.

Wei Zheng and others proposed to strengthen the monitoring of gunpowder weapons research and development and production work more strictly. Wei Yunqi and others were more concerned about when the army could be replaced with such weapons and equipment that surpassed the times.

In addition, I also told them that although gunpowder weapons are powerful and unparalleled, this weapon has one disadvantage, that is, they are more expensive to maintain in the later stage, and, compared with cold weapons, there is also a problem of moisture.

Although various methods have been used to restrict and preserve, it is still a big problem to get wet gunpowder, but compared to the initial gunpowder storage, it is much better now. After careful grinding, the extremely smooth surface of gunpowder particles are sent into the graphite bucket and wrapped with a thin layer of graphite powder.

It will not affect the quality of the gunpowder at all, but it can ensure that the moisture resistance of the gunpowder increases. In addition, it is usually wrapped in interlayer oil paper. After such treatment, the gunpowder that has been placed for the longest time can still be used for more than five years.

Although this shelf life is not as good as that of later generations, I remember that it seems that some people used artillery shells from World War II in the chaotic time of Ukraine in the 21st century. The moisture-proof performance is really shameful, but the problem is that I was in a time that was more than a thousand years earlier than them, so it is already amazing to be able to achieve such moisture-proof performance.

After the exercise, after condolences and encouragement to the troops participating in the exercise, an emergency meeting was started directly on the platform just now. It was a meeting on how to ensure the confidentiality and security of gunpowder weapons.

At the meeting, I directly told these important officials of the court that the advantages and disadvantages of gunpowder weapons were that they had long range, high power, strong lethality, and would not be restricted by physical strength like bows and arrows.

The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, gunpowder weapons are prone to moisture. However, after several years of research and improvement, the moisture problem has been greatly solved, but another important problem is supply.

Unlike cold weapons, gunpowder weapons must use ammunition. Without ammunition, all flintlock rifles can only act as spears, and they are very short spears. As for artillery, without ammunition, they cannot be carried even if they are used to smash people.
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